Newspapers varied in Page One display of Fort Hood massacre


Editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided shortly after the assault at Fort Hood Thursday to devote a major part of the front page to that story. We weighed whether to cut back to one or two local stories on Page One, and opted for the former to ensure adequate space for developments at Fort Hood. That one local story — about how swine flu has caused a shortage of liquid Tamiflu — was displayed across the bottom of the page.
A check of newspaper front pages at Newseum.org shows that most other papers used less of their front pages for the Fort Hood story.




Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980.
They say this was just an act by one crazed Muslim and not a terrorist attack. Do you not believe that all of the victims felt terror when they were being wounded and killed?.